Article ID: CBB670634693

Contribution of the AN/TPS-3 Radar Antenna to Australian radio astronomy (2018)

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The CSIRO Division of Radiophysics used the WWII surplus AN/TPS-3 radar dishes for their early solar radio astronomy research and eclipse observations. These aerials were also used in a spaced (Michelson) interferometer configuration in the late 1940s to investigate solar limb brightening at 600 MHz. This work paralleled early solar observations at Cambridge. None of the Australian research results using the spaced interferometry technique appeared in publications, and the invention of the solar grating array in 1950 made further use of the method redundant.

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Authors & Contributors
Orchiston, Wayne
Ishiguro, Masato
Munns, David
Wielebinski, Richard
Wendt, Harry
Slee, Bruce
Concepts
Radio astronomy
Physics
Instruments, astronomical
Solar astronomy
Astronomy
Antennas
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
19th century
Places
Australia
Sydney (Australia)
United States
Japan
Tasmania (Australia)
Tokyo (Japan)
Institutions
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) (Australia)
Osaka City University
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie
Brookhaven National Laboratory (United States)
United States. Office of Naval Research
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (U.S.)
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